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the obama campaign says it's winning. the romney campaign says it's winning and to be quite honest we can't tell you whoa's right but tonight we'll lie out the choices. mitt romney looking presidential in a blue suit and teleprompter told thousands of supporters, the next four days count. >> the only things that stand between us in some of the best years we've known is lack of leadership. and that's why we have elections after off. this tuesday is the moment to look into the future and imagine what we can do, to put the past four years behind us and start building a new future. >> and barack obama looking presidential yesterday in a bomber jacket in air force one saying romney is not worth the risk. >> after four years as president, you know me by now. you may not agree with every decision i've made. you may be frustrated at the pace of change, but you know what i believe. you know where i stand. you know i'm willing to make tough decisions even when they're not politically convenient. >> let's start by assessing these cl
the obama campaign says it's winning. the romney campaign says it's winning and to be quite honest we can't tell you whoa's right but tonight we'll lie out the choices. mitt romney looking presidential in a blue suit and teleprompter told thousands of supporters, the next four days count. >> the only things that stand between us in some of the best years we've known is lack of leadership. and that's why we have elections after off. this tuesday is the moment to look into the future and...
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barack obama is winning by 30 votes. george bush lost the hispanic votes by nine points but now it's up to 30 points again. the growing groups, the spread against republicans is getting bigger. it's a double whammy. >> also the republican party does not know how to deal on the issue of gay and lesbian americans. they are not mentioned. democratic candidates at least mention the word. you never hear about it from republicans. >> they were increasingly in that position. we started this by talk about how the democrats going into this campaign had 19 states. they won five times in a row. you start talking about what john king was talking about and new states being added to that coalition and it backs really hard. >> as we wait for president obama and we anticipate him very shortly, you can see the crowd eagerly anticipating him. what do we anticipate him saying tonight? this is crucial. he knows his legacy is at stake. he wants to get things done. what happens now? >> it has nothing to do with the speech but i suspect he may
barack obama is winning by 30 votes. george bush lost the hispanic votes by nine points but now it's up to 30 points again. the growing groups, the spread against republicans is getting bigger. it's a double whammy. >> also the republican party does not know how to deal on the issue of gay and lesbian americans. they are not mentioned. democratic candidates at least mention the word. you never hear about it from republicans. >> they were increasingly in that position. we started...
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. >> barack obama, president-elect of the united states. >>> right now, barack obama and mitt romney, they are trying to close the deal with voters in battleground states. >> stand by for our last presidential poll as we count down the crucial hours until election day. >> the final frantic race for president before voters have their say. mitt romney and barack obama ending a close campaign. fighting for every vote until the bitter end. >> we know what change looks like. and what he's offering ain't it. >> this our, our last presidential poll before election day. the candidate's 11th hour game plan, and the possibility of a stunning cliffhanger. >> this is the time to elect a leader. >> i would like to win this thing earlier than later. >> now, cnn's countdown to election day. the fight for the presidency, the battle for congress, pane t and the issues dividing the nation. >> i still believe in you. if you still believe in me, i'm asking for your vote. >> i need you to find people that will join our cause. >> it's your vote, your future, your country, your choice. >>> we're down to les
. >> barack obama, president-elect of the united states. >>> right now, barack obama and mitt romney, they are trying to close the deal with voters in battleground states. >> stand by for our last presidential poll as we count down the crucial hours until election day. >> the final frantic race for president before voters have their say. mitt romney and barack obama ending a close campaign. fighting for every vote until the bitter end. >> we know what change...
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he also wants to get rid of obama care, repeal obama care. says he will keep the most popular part bus by and large, the rest of at the just wants to chuck out. he, too, could face that supreme court seat. big difference though. big difference. if a liberal justice goes away, woe probably want to put a more conservative justice in that seat. that would change the balance of the court and, wolf, it would probably affect the types of rulings that we would see coming out of that court if president romney were in charge. wolf? >> tom, a lot of experts believe the house will remain in the hands of the republicans, but what about the balance of power in the senate? >> well, wolf, the simple truth is getting any of this done for either of these men will depend largely on what happens in this chamber. the democrats obviously could hold their advantage. the republicans might be able to pick up those three blue seats back there, in which case, you would have a tie here and any 50/50 vote would have to be decided by the vice president, either joe biden
he also wants to get rid of obama care, repeal obama care. says he will keep the most popular part bus by and large, the rest of at the just wants to chuck out. he, too, could face that supreme court seat. big difference though. big difference. if a liberal justice goes away, woe probably want to put a more conservative justice in that seat. that would change the balance of the court and, wolf, it would probably affect the types of rulings that we would see coming out of that court if president...
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it was all anti-obama. nobody has a pro-romney argument, and even romney supporters aren't effectually for him. >> okay. >> my aunt delores in st. louis sick in the hospital today, i called her before i was on my way here. she didn't answer the phone, and then my cousin responded is because she doesn't like to pick up phone calls from numbers she doesn't remember. i think that's the thing about black people, about older people, about seniors, about young people, about people who are broke and a lot of people who are not being polled krektdkrekt correctly and i think the polls would show there's an undercount. >> i know a lot of broke white people that don't respond to polls either. >> aunt delores is not feeling well. i wish you the best and speedy recovery. polls close in florida in less than six hours and the secretary of state is predicting a record high turnout with up to 9 million people voting. up next i talk with danny vargas and the washington post's ann kornbluth. the man everyone talks about when
it was all anti-obama. nobody has a pro-romney argument, and even romney supporters aren't effectually for him. >> okay. >> my aunt delores in st. louis sick in the hospital today, i called her before i was on my way here. she didn't answer the phone, and then my cousin responded is because she doesn't like to pick up phone calls from numbers she doesn't remember. i think that's the thing about black people, about older people, about seniors, about young people, about people who are...
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abc and the war war post has romney at 48% and obama at 49%. wolf blitzer, you have a special combing on this evening, we all know that the winner in this race will be the candidate with the most electoral votes. so what do we take -- what do we kind of grasp from his national polls then? >> you know, there's certainly a possibility, similar to what happened in 2000, that one of the candidates would get a majority of the popular vote, but not necessarily the 270 you need in the electoral college to be elected president of the united states. remember in 2000, al gore got about half a million more votes than george w. bush. but he lost florida by 537 votes as all of our viewers remember, and as a result, george w. bush had enough to win the more than 270 you need to be elected president of the united states and so you could have a situation that would develop in this particular case, maybe romney would win the popular vote but obama would win the electoral college. it wouldn't be the first time and that is certainly a possibility at this point. t
abc and the war war post has romney at 48% and obama at 49%. wolf blitzer, you have a special combing on this evening, we all know that the winner in this race will be the candidate with the most electoral votes. so what do we take -- what do we kind of grasp from his national polls then? >> you know, there's certainly a possibility, similar to what happened in 2000, that one of the candidates would get a majority of the popular vote, but not necessarily the 270 you need in the electoral...
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president obama has a problem with his base. that is what he has been focused on, making sure they turn out the way they did in 2008. to the obama campaign is a bit more nervous. take what they say with a triple helping of salt and may be what romney says with a single helping. gerri: but, you know, you listen to what the obama campaign was saying. they say that the fact that romney will stay on the campaign trail tomorrow, election day, signals weakness that they are worried. how do you read that? >> well, as you say, they are talking their buck. they, of course to have a big need to. they have lost the momentum. there was a good thing when sandy came through. every day the president is not talking about the economy, the debt, and his record is a good day for the president. we're back to those topics. we are seeing the map expand for governor romney late in the game. the fact that he is in pennsylvania. 30,000 people outside philadelphia, a lot of momentum. the same is true with minnesota. i don't think it is an act of weakness
president obama has a problem with his base. that is what he has been focused on, making sure they turn out the way they did in 2008. to the obama campaign is a bit more nervous. take what they say with a triple helping of salt and may be what romney says with a single helping. gerri: but, you know, you listen to what the obama campaign was saying. they say that the fact that romney will stay on the campaign trail tomorrow, election day, signals weakness that they are worried. how do you read...
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in colorado president obama up by four. in iowa, president obama up by four. in wisconsin president obama up by seven points. in new hampshire the president leading in six points. in ohio president obama leading in three points. in virginia president obama leading by one point. in florida president obama leading by two points. one state that's not a swing state this year but that president obama made into a swing state in 2008 is the great state of indiana. indiana flipped from red to blue in the presidential contest. president obama is not necessarily expected to pull off the same thing this year in indiana. but this year there's a really hot race in indiana in the senate. after a tea party primary cost senator richard lugar his senate job, the republican candidate in indiana ended up being the guy on the left side of your screen richard mourdock. he's up against joe donnelly. since he made his rape comment at a debate a few weeks ago, in very, very, very, very red state indiana, the republican candidate is now behind in that state senate race. he's losing th
in colorado president obama up by four. in iowa, president obama up by four. in wisconsin president obama up by seven points. in new hampshire the president leading in six points. in ohio president obama leading in three points. in virginia president obama leading by one point. in florida president obama leading by two points. one state that's not a swing state this year but that president obama made into a swing state in 2008 is the great state of indiana. indiana flipped from red to blue in...
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president obama got 43% of the time. if there are any filibusters left, they need to be rare and they need to be need to be actual filibusters. host: one of the nominations that did not get the senate approval was that of robert bork. that is the subject of this tweet. he says, the author is biased against conservative republicans. his beloved senate of the 1980's is the one that castigated robert bork. guest: robert bork was defeated in 1987. he was defeated by democrats and some republicans. he was regarded as the right- wing's preeminent legal scholar. the senate approved double -- approved in the number of nominees to the supreme court, including justice scalia -- justice scalia. bork was regarded as exceptional and he was defeated for that reason. host: it is not that each side is trying to avenge their last defeat so bad when a -- so that when a democratic nominee comes up for approval, they are defeated by republicans and vice versa. guest: there is certainly some of that. sometimes they act like the sharks and th
president obama got 43% of the time. if there are any filibusters left, they need to be rare and they need to be need to be actual filibusters. host: one of the nominations that did not get the senate approval was that of robert bork. that is the subject of this tweet. he says, the author is biased against conservative republicans. his beloved senate of the 1980's is the one that castigated robert bork. guest: robert bork was defeated in 1987. he was defeated by democrats and some republicans....
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then the president obama obama and speaker bainer and then the polling during the 2012 presidential campaign. >> tomorrow president obama will be at arlington national cemetery to participate in the ceremony at the tom of the unknown and a remembrance ceremony. live coverage begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> 2013 should be the year we solve our debt reform. i'm proposing we avert the fiscal cliff and 2013 is finally the year our government comes to grips with the problems that are facing us. >> i'm open to compromise and new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenge. but i refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. i'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. >> the new elected congress starts in january but the congress has to do work in a lame duck session and they have to work on the federal deficit raising the debt ceiling and by how much and planned cuts to domestic and military spending also known as sequestration. live coverage on c-span and
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the obama campaign is a bit more nervous. so take what they say with a triple upping of salt and may be whetherrromney says with a single up. gerri: all right. doug, you listen to what the obama campaign was saying today. they say that the fact that ron is going to stay on the campaign trail tomorrow, election day, signals weakness, that they are worried. have you read that? >> well, as you say, they are talking their buck. they, of course, have a need to because they have lost the momentum. it was a good thing when sandy came through. every day the president is not talking about the economy, the debt, and his record is a good day for the president. we are back to those topics. the most important thing is we are seeing a map expand for governor romney late in the game. the fact that he is in pennsylvania, 30,000 people outside philadelphia says there is a lot of momentum. the same is true putting minnesota and plate. i don't think it is an act of weakness. i think it's time to lock down what will be a really big upset when. g
the obama campaign is a bit more nervous. so take what they say with a triple upping of salt and may be whetherrromney says with a single up. gerri: all right. doug, you listen to what the obama campaign was saying today. they say that the fact that ron is going to stay on the campaign trail tomorrow, election day, signals weakness, that they are worried. have you read that? >> well, as you say, they are talking their buck. they, of course, have a need to because they have lost the...
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president obama. now here's christie on obama's win over romney. time and effort traordinarily into the mitt romney campaign. >> did governor romney, mort, commit a huge mistake by not going to the storm ravaged new jersey coast, joining governor christie and president obama, who were both on the scene? was it a telling mistake? because it was all over the news, night after night as after night for the week preceding the election. >> that's right. it was a mistake in retrospect. but the real mistake romney made was the way he handled chris christie when he was picking a vice presidential partner and christie was extremely alienated by whatever that process was. but absolutely, romney had the chance to show up and be a player and be a visual player on all of television and he wasn't there. >> what could be said that he would be capital liesing on a nonpolitical event. >> that is the point. >> that is not the point. >> that is the point. >> the head of the party ought to be there. >> he had no role, and he wisely stepped aside. he would have been acc
president obama. now here's christie on obama's win over romney. time and effort traordinarily into the mitt romney campaign. >> did governor romney, mort, commit a huge mistake by not going to the storm ravaged new jersey coast, joining governor christie and president obama, who were both on the scene? was it a telling mistake? because it was all over the news, night after night as after night for the week preceding the election. >> that's right. it was a mistake in retrospect. but...
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i solidly see an obama victory. host: the washington post is writing about myths about the electoral college. guest: the caller was right. states like new jersey and new york will not affect the electoral college. president obama will win those. huge numbers for romney in the south. there is a chance for an electoral college-popular vote split. host: who are you pulling for now? guest: in the senate races, we are in michigan, wisconsin, nevada, the governor's race in new hampshire. we do 75 congressional races. we started off with 53 incumbents going into this election. we do some polling for the romney campaign. host: what is happening for the wisconsin senate race? guest: i did some polling for scott walker. we have it right in terms of polling as opposed to what you are seeing in the public polling. we have a net edge presidentially and in the senate race going for tom thompson in that senate race. what we are seeing there we are seeing in all of the campaigns. we have closed the gaps that democrats have in those
i solidly see an obama victory. host: the washington post is writing about myths about the electoral college. guest: the caller was right. states like new jersey and new york will not affect the electoral college. president obama will win those. huge numbers for romney in the south. there is a chance for an electoral college-popular vote split. host: who are you pulling for now? guest: in the senate races, we are in michigan, wisconsin, nevada, the governor's race in new hampshire. we do 75...
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jessica what are you hearing from the obama campaign? >> reporter: senior obama aides tell me that so farther seeing no surprises in the data. specifically they say they see no surge for governor romney. what this means is governor romney would need a significant edge in the turnout on election day to overcome president obama's early vote advantage in so many of these battle ground states and what these senior aides are telling me is that they are not seeing governor romney get that turnout edge today. of course, it is still early and far too soon to know. what they're also telling me is they are seeing high turnout across the nation on both sides. but they particularly point to pennsylvania and virginia telling me they're seeing an increased african-american vote in both those states. that would be very good for president obama if the african-american vote turns out. i'm told they are feeling calm and confident. but as i say again, obviously they're giving me only the good news and it is way too early in the day to know how this will pl
jessica what are you hearing from the obama campaign? >> reporter: senior obama aides tell me that so farther seeing no surprises in the data. specifically they say they see no surge for governor romney. what this means is governor romney would need a significant edge in the turnout on election day to overcome president obama's early vote advantage in so many of these battle ground states and what these senior aides are telling me is that they are not seeing governor romney get that...
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obama care. the second i am going to launch a sweeping review of all of obama regulations with an eye to eliminating and repairing those that are killing jobs. for the first time in four years, every entrepreneur, every small business person, every jobs creator will know that the president of the united states likes them and loves jobs and higher wages that they bring: paul ryan and i will limit government instead of limiting the dreams of our fellow americans. our choice on tuesday will lead to two very good outcomes. the president is re-elected. he will still be able to work with the people in congress. he has ignored them. he has attacked them. he has blamed them. remember the debt ceiling? that will come up again. there will be a threat of shut down and default as there has been before. that freezes the economy. keeps small businesses from hiring and investing. the president was right when he said he couldn't change washington from the outsiinside. only from the outside. we are going to give
obama care. the second i am going to launch a sweeping review of all of obama regulations with an eye to eliminating and repairing those that are killing jobs. for the first time in four years, every entrepreneur, every small business person, every jobs creator will know that the president of the united states likes them and loves jobs and higher wages that they bring: paul ryan and i will limit government instead of limiting the dreams of our fellow americans. our choice on tuesday will lead...
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for obama for re-election. george w. bush is the most unpopular second-term president in the post-war era following him into the presidency is for barack obama, the gift that keeps on giving. >> nicolle wallace, you've worked for george w. bush. you saw one thing, one dynamic in the entire campaign is mitt romney did not want to be tethered to the economic policies of george w. bush and, of course, president bush did not come to the convention. >> right, you know, he really was an invisible figure and republicans i think made a bet -- certainly in 2010 it worked against barack obama to still be blaming george w. bush who would appear based on the things we're looking at tonight that voters were restricted to that message and still willing to hold president bush responsible and that's surprising. >> we have a pro-jikz in the state in which president obama said this is the state that gave me a chance when no one else, we have a projected winner in iowa and it is president barack obama, george. >> this is a big wi
for obama for re-election. george w. bush is the most unpopular second-term president in the post-war era following him into the presidency is for barack obama, the gift that keeps on giving. >> nicolle wallace, you've worked for george w. bush. you saw one thing, one dynamic in the entire campaign is mitt romney did not want to be tethered to the economic policies of george w. bush and, of course, president bush did not come to the convention. >> right, you know, he really was an...
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of course, you're hearing the barbs from the obama campaign, in fact, from president obama himself saying that mitt romney doesn't represent change. >> and we were looking at the ads in this final week. it's interesting because it's not just television. but the radio ad wars as well. >> that's right. what is most interesting about what's going on, you mentioned the $143 million figure being spent on the final week of the presidential contest is that team romney, and that's the romney campaign and all the republican-leaning super groups, they're almost outspending team obama by nearly a 2-1 ratio. so we're actually going to get a sense to see if the super pacs really are able to move the needle in this presidential contest or whether there's already so much ad saturation out there that all these ads that are occurring in the final week of the campaign don't matter all that much, the people who have seen almost every tv ad that you can imagine in ohio, virginia and other battlegrounds. >> all right. mark murray, great pleasure having you on, two times, very nice, always a pleasure. >>> let
of course, you're hearing the barbs from the obama campaign, in fact, from president obama himself saying that mitt romney doesn't represent change. >> and we were looking at the ads in this final week. it's interesting because it's not just television. but the radio ad wars as well. >> that's right. what is most interesting about what's going on, you mentioned the $143 million figure being spent on the final week of the presidential contest is that team romney, and that's the...
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in 2008, then president elect obama met with john mccain at the obama campaign chicago's headquarters. vice president al gore and george w. bush had a private meeting after gore officially conceded the election. and president clinton gave the defeated bob dole a presidential medal of freedom just days before the second clinton inauguration. other rivals weren't as conciliatory. herbert hoover and franklin d. roosevelt reportedly sat in silence to the inauguration. walter mondale told politico he and ronald reagan never sat down for this kind of conversation. and is a former aide to john kerry told politico that kerry and george w. bush never spoke to one another after john kerry conceded the election. joining me now, pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post" and msnbc analyst eugene erickson. and we have all -- i won't speak for you. i have -- i have more than once, i think, said we will keep in touch, let's keep in touch, to someone i did not then keep in touch with. i don't think i've ever been as phony about it, though, as these two guys today promising to stay in
in 2008, then president elect obama met with john mccain at the obama campaign chicago's headquarters. vice president al gore and george w. bush had a private meeting after gore officially conceded the election. and president clinton gave the defeated bob dole a presidential medal of freedom just days before the second clinton inauguration. other rivals weren't as conciliatory. herbert hoover and franklin d. roosevelt reportedly sat in silence to the inauguration. walter mondale told politico...
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will it be barack obama? >> we know what we want to do works. we know what they want to do doesn't work. >> or mitt romney? >> he's offering excuses. i've got a plan. >> this presidential contest could be a squeaker until the end. >> we're going to win with your help. >> we'll win this election. >> we're live across the country in the swing states. >> hope and change has become anger, frustration, divide and cones conquer. >> the fight for the presidency, the battle for congress, and the issues dividing the nation. >> i still believe in you. if you still believe in me, i'm asking for your vote. >> i need you to find people to come join our cause. >> it's your vote, your future, your country, your choice. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. we're counting down to the first poll closings in just two hours. our correspondents are stationed across the country and in all the key battleground states following the candidates and the voters. some of whom are waitin
will it be barack obama? >> we know what we want to do works. we know what they want to do doesn't work. >> or mitt romney? >> he's offering excuses. i've got a plan. >> this presidential contest could be a squeaker until the end. >> we're going to win with your help. >> we'll win this election. >> we're live across the country in the swing states. >> hope and change has become anger, frustration, divide and cones conquer. >> the fight for...
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and they were really going after him on obama care. how did you get around that and get the victory. what did you say about obama care? >> well, as you know, i'm a breast cancer survivor. and i simply sent a message that, you know, i'd never take away seniors' health care or anyone's health care. there's good and bad in the health care law, and we need to fix the bad parts and keep the good parts. and basically, a lot of people thought you should just run away from it. and i said, wait a minute, there's some really good things in obama care. there's some really good things about the health care law. there are some things that need to be fixed. why can't we just sit down and fix the bad and keep good and move on? health care is way too important to politicize it, the way it's been politicized for the last four years. >> what advice would you give to the president right now, after today's press conference, moving forward, trying to fight through the obstruction that we can anticipate from the republicans, if it's anything like the last s
and they were really going after him on obama care. how did you get around that and get the victory. what did you say about obama care? >> well, as you know, i'm a breast cancer survivor. and i simply sent a message that, you know, i'd never take away seniors' health care or anyone's health care. there's good and bad in the health care law, and we need to fix the bad parts and keep the good parts. and basically, a lot of people thought you should just run away from it. and i said, wait a...
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what you see now between romney and obama is that obama is really striving to speak to the ordinary american try to use investment in education in infrastructure in technology to try to get folks working again romney has a very different view he thinks that the government is the problem it needs to get out of the way and then small businesses and large businesses will flourish it's a it's a fundamental differences of opinion and it's one reason that right now you do see voters feeling quite passionately either toward romney or toward obama you're a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations so i've got to ask you this we've been speaking to north americans about the vote and what's striking is that much of the world is firmly behind above the why is that. i think for two main reasons one is that obama represents a new generation a multicultural and multi ethnic generation that in some respects i think many people around the world would like to see for their own countries and secondly obama represented a brand of american foreign policy that many people around the world found a relief
what you see now between romney and obama is that obama is really striving to speak to the ordinary american try to use investment in education in infrastructure in technology to try to get folks working again romney has a very different view he thinks that the government is the problem it needs to get out of the way and then small businesses and large businesses will flourish it's a it's a fundamental differences of opinion and it's one reason that right now you do see voters feeling quite...
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president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. a cup of johan is a 600 horsepower sports coupe that likes to hug curves. ♪ your curves. smooth, rich, never bitter, gevalia. >>> president obama has a big lead over mitt romney with hispanics. are they going to vote, trying to make sure they come out is mayor villa ra gosy, campaigned nonstop for the president in new mexico, colorado, nevada, and today in miami. thank you very much. what are you seeing down there because we know there have been long lines for early voting and a lot of frustration and a lot of legal disputes between the two parties? >> and a lot of enthusiasm. i've been saying andrea, for a long time, every time i think i've been on your show, this is going to be a close election, obviously this is a battleground state but i'll tell you something, 150,000 more democrats have voted early voting and that's true even though they reduced the number of days by six for early voting and as you know, even tried to oppose extending the hours at a location where there was a b
president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. a cup of johan is a 600 horsepower sports coupe that likes to hug curves. ♪ your curves. smooth, rich, never bitter, gevalia. >>> president obama has a big lead over mitt romney with hispanics. are they going to vote, trying to make sure they come out is mayor villa ra gosy, campaigned nonstop for the president in new mexico, colorado, nevada, and today in miami. thank you very much. what are you seeing down there...
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the obama administration was aware. but not ready. neil: yet, i guess let's say, if the president is reelected. many have thought, well, that investigation will go nowhere. slightly better chance in mitt if mitt smith elected. -- if mitt romney is elected. do you think this disappears. >> no, secretary of state clinton appointed a accountability review board. you make sure that the entire foreign relaying relayings comms signed a better, it will come forward, we'll find out, we knew a lot sooner than admitted. we were not prepared. neil: you know, i knowome of your colleagues, republican colleagues saiedia and a lot of opponents of president bush did not waste a nano second trying to explore weapons of mass destruction, who knew what, or hid what. but here, same zeal does not apply. what do you think of that? >> any time an american dies in e line of duty, particularly a diplomat, first diplomat killed since 1979, all americans and all media should be focused. why the media has not focused we could never guess. neil: i appreciate your
the obama administration was aware. but not ready. neil: yet, i guess let's say, if the president is reelected. many have thought, well, that investigation will go nowhere. slightly better chance in mitt if mitt smith elected. -- if mitt romney is elected. do you think this disappears. >> no, secretary of state clinton appointed a accountability review board. you make sure that the entire foreign relaying relayings comms signed a better, it will come forward, we'll find out, we knew a lot...
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i give the obama campaign credit. they picked exactly the right moment when they had a financial advantage between june and august, before general election. they defined him and did a good job. people in the romney campaign don't have anything to be ashamed of. they ran a tough race. >> tom cole, member of congress, thank you. >>> forget the powerball. wall street is feeling optimistic that lawmakers will hit the fiscal cliff jackpot. i don't know what they've heard. the market rundown is next. are we there yet? the votes are still being counted. the list of uncalled races is about to finally hit empty. our latest tally is coming up and why that 47% number is still haunting romney. >>> if jeb bush were nominated in 2016, they will be the second set by a major party. name the first set of brothers to do this? tweet me the answer @chuck thooet todd. the answer is coming up on "the daily rundown." we'll be right back. restore revive rejuvenate rebuild rebuild rebuild gives you a low $18.50 monthly plan premium... and sel
i give the obama campaign credit. they picked exactly the right moment when they had a financial advantage between june and august, before general election. they defined him and did a good job. people in the romney campaign don't have anything to be ashamed of. they ran a tough race. >> tom cole, member of congress, thank you. >>> forget the powerball. wall street is feeling optimistic that lawmakers will hit the fiscal cliff jackpot. i don't know what they've heard. the market...
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obama by contrast 177% of counties with a whole foods market. now, i was racing, i was doing my whole foods, cracker barrel shtick before -- as a young woman in the audience who said excuse me, did you mean crate & barrel? i've never heard of cracker barrel. [laughter] >> i think that speaks to the mentality of the democratic base these days. that 48% gap, and this is true. i'm not making this up to 48% gap between whole foods counties and cracker barrel counties, when you look at election results and results come back to 1992, that gap is 20% in 1992, 25% in 1996, 32% in 2000. 40% in 2004, 44% in 2008, 48% in 2012. and i would venture to guess it will be over 50% in 2016, if we're headed down this current path. what's the moral of the story? culture and lifestyle are driving voting, not policy, not personal economic considerations and the like. and we have record levels straight ticket voting. as far as coming apart, i think we're coming apart in congress. take a look at the changing demographics as both person congress as a result of this elec
obama by contrast 177% of counties with a whole foods market. now, i was racing, i was doing my whole foods, cracker barrel shtick before -- as a young woman in the audience who said excuse me, did you mean crate & barrel? i've never heard of cracker barrel. [laughter] >> i think that speaks to the mentality of the democratic base these days. that 48% gap, and this is true. i'm not making this up to 48% gap between whole foods counties and cracker barrel counties, when you look at...
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not under obama. 30% bonus for a single year. in the current economic environment it may be to encourage more capital investment. i think we need to discuss whether we want to have the corporate income tax and how we want to make it work. secondly, obama gave all the tax cuts to small business under the guide of the stimulus that the republicans wanted the tax cuts are not a stimulus, they are antistimulus but he voted for all these things and the best indication is this during the savings and loan crisis 20 years ago, 3,000 felony convictions, a thousand of them insiders. they went to prison. how many prosecutions have we seen in the crisis that led to the meltdown in 2008? that's right and the statute of limitations is rapidly running out and that's why we neither side says we are going to go off to these people but lied, cheated and steel but if you read the financial crisis commission report they gave about $10 million which is like and 80 million or 100 million-dollar, no one's been able to poke a hole in that report and whe
not under obama. 30% bonus for a single year. in the current economic environment it may be to encourage more capital investment. i think we need to discuss whether we want to have the corporate income tax and how we want to make it work. secondly, obama gave all the tax cuts to small business under the guide of the stimulus that the republicans wanted the tax cuts are not a stimulus, they are antistimulus but he voted for all these things and the best indication is this during the savings and...
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they're going for president obama. if you're getting 55% among the biggest chunk, you are well on your path to victory. let's move it over. go through the battleground states. you start getting -- swing states, he's winning in then you come over here, this is the mother of all battlegrounds, welcome back from columbus. 2% of the electorate in ohio are women. 55%. the combination of the diversity obama coalition. you add it up, simple math. as every as bill clinton said, sometimes it's just arithmetic. >> in that speech. there was another area that was traditionally republican, but it shifted. the suburbs. >> we'll do a little -- turn this up. if you look at this close presidential election, 2004, post presidential elections in american politics won the suburbs. this is the 2000 election. you see bush winning in the denver suburbs. the president wins, the democrats win in downtown. that's senator kerry in that year. but now, 2012. it's blue. in the key swing states, the democrats dominate in the suburbs. back over to oh
they're going for president obama. if you're getting 55% among the biggest chunk, you are well on your path to victory. let's move it over. go through the battleground states. you start getting -- swing states, he's winning in then you come over here, this is the mother of all battlegrounds, welcome back from columbus. 2% of the electorate in ohio are women. 55%. the combination of the diversity obama coalition. you add it up, simple math. as every as bill clinton said, sometimes it's just...
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this is not the hope and change obama, this was not, there's no red state and blue state obama. he won ugly, it's divisive and if this is the template for how democrats want to win elections going forward to this-- >> and i can tell you what the reaction in the white house would be if they heard you say that, they would say get over it, grow up, this is politics, republicans got a, you know, put on their boxing gloves and get over it. >> oh, yeah. >> paul: so what? you know. >> i won, you know, suck it up. >> i agree. this is the new benchmark the way you win a presidential campaign. no question about it, it's too bad, but that's the way it is. i want to elaborate on one of kim's points. the turnout machine, it did not materialize after the convention in august. we need to pay a lot more attention to the so-called obama ground game. in some ways, trying to talk about this in neutral terms, it's somewhat analogous to a corporation's marketing campaign for a new product. and they don't just do that overnight. obama kept offices open after the 2008 campaign in iowa, in ohio, in flo
this is not the hope and change obama, this was not, there's no red state and blue state obama. he won ugly, it's divisive and if this is the template for how democrats want to win elections going forward to this-- >> and i can tell you what the reaction in the white house would be if they heard you say that, they would say get over it, grow up, this is politics, republicans got a, you know, put on their boxing gloves and get over it. >> oh, yeah. >> paul: so what? you know....
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i think obama tried it. he came on really wanting to try couldn't find the partners to do that but if you had a burst of five or six people in the key positions in washington then you could change the dynamic and the quality of the individual. >> rose: you're talking about -- it seems to me the idea of collegiality and a lot of other qualities that i think the country hungers for. >> you have to have a dual consciousness between a campaign consciousness and governing consciousness and that requires a degree of elitism. a sense of i'm part of a leadership class and i'll behave in a certain way for the country even though it may not poll well and that aristocratic ethos-- to sound a little ham ill on theian is not there. >> i would say you can be elite without being elitist. once you get elected to congress you are a member of the elite but it's not elitist to think you have to have-to-govern and to govern you have to have relationships and the problem with reasonableness in congress now is the country desires
i think obama tried it. he came on really wanting to try couldn't find the partners to do that but if you had a burst of five or six people in the key positions in washington then you could change the dynamic and the quality of the individual. >> rose: you're talking about -- it seems to me the idea of collegiality and a lot of other qualities that i think the country hungers for. >> you have to have a dual consciousness between a campaign consciousness and governing consciousness...
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obama care. energy. all that just got wiped off the page for four or five days and that had the effect of getting everybody's mind off the election. that started over here in the last day or so. >> that is the funny thing about momentum. i'm sure you experience this, governor. one day you have it and the other day you don't but you can get it back. how lasting do you think the effect it on the romney campaign? >> nothing obama did broke romney's momentum. all the way through october obama would attack and attack and be very condescending. didn't help. in fact, it may have hurt him with women. but the blackout took all this off people's minds and now we are seeing who kind of gets the momentum back going. it is very, very close and the new york times i guess i shouldn't be surprised by what gets written in the "new york times" but almost every one of these battleground states the polling is within the margin of error. very few polls has obama got over 50% of the vote. normally a president in the last poll
obama care. energy. all that just got wiped off the page for four or five days and that had the effect of getting everybody's mind off the election. that started over here in the last day or so. >> that is the funny thing about momentum. i'm sure you experience this, governor. one day you have it and the other day you don't but you can get it back. how lasting do you think the effect it on the romney campaign? >> nothing obama did broke romney's momentum. all the way through october...